The flight tests of the latest Angara-1.2 light carrier rocket will require three test-launches, Aerospace Force Commander-in-Chief Sergei Surovikin said on Friday.

"As part of the experimental design work, the flight tests of the Angara space rocket are taking place. They envisage six launches of the Angara-A5 heavy rocket and three launches of the Angara-1.2 light carrier," Surovikin said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

By now, two qualification test-launches have been carried out, he specified.

"Until the end of this year, a new qualification launch of the Angara-A5 heavy carrier rocket is scheduled and the preparation for it has been organized in an established procedure," he explained.